{"id":342306,"date":"2013-09-19T04:42:32","date_gmt":"2013-09-19T02:42:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/holland-afghanistan-a-story-from-the-refugee-camp\/"},"modified":"2024-06-06T12:10:22","modified_gmt":"2024-06-06T10:10:22","slug":"holland-afghanistan-a-story-from-the-refugee-camp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/holland-afghanistan-a-story-from-the-refugee-camp\/","title":{"rendered":"Holland &amp; Afghanistan. A story from the refugee camp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img alt=\"\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-92355    alignright\" style=\"margin-left: 10px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/20130919-a1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"252\" \/>  <strong>Gaffar from Afghanistan had to seek asylum in Holland for him and his family. <\/strong>Life in the refugee camp was not easy with one room for the whole family. The children had to play outdoors when they were bored and disturbing to others. Every day Gaffar attempted to invent something new that would keep them busy in a positive way.  <strong>Gaffar is a journalist and to keep his own mind active<\/strong>, he began translating a book. One day his friend, Frank, brought him a typewriter. To Gaffar it was like touching heaven with his fingertips. Now he could type his translation. Then his roommate exclaimed: \u201cI would like to have one of those too!\u201d Gaffar told him: \u201cTake it; it\u2019s yours.\u201d  Later that same day Peter arrived with <strong>a computer<\/strong> for Gaffar. It was still working well, and had been given to Peter when the computers at his office were replaced with new ones. \u201cSeeing all the things you are doing for the children, I thought it could be helpful for you in preparing activities for them.\u201d That month the Word of Life that was being lived said: \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/news\/category\/parola-di-vita\/\">Give and there will be gifts for you<\/a>.\u201d  (Photo: Afghan refugees leaving their country)  <em>Source:<\/em>\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cittanuova.it\/c\/431425\/Mi_avevano_detto_date_e_vi_sar_dato.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Citt\u00e0 Nuova online<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The experience of Gaffar from Afghanistan, as he and his family take refuge in Holland. He did not refuse someone who asked him for what he had.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[893],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-342306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-focolare-worldwide-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342306\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}